In pattern BBWBWKW.

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripes tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2719

Attestations

This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 01/01/1980 — MacPherson Dress Purple (register-of-tartans, record)
• 1980 — MacPherson Dress, Purple (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
• undated — MacPherson Dress (purple) Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 94. Earliest known date: c 1980 There are a great number of variations of the Dress MacPherson, many of them modern trade designs which are popular with country dancers. Hugh Macpherson of Edinburgh, kiltmaker and tartan designer some decades ago, supplied samples of these to the Scottish Tartan Society around 1980. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)

Thread count

B/8 P20 LN8 P52 LN62 K6 LN/10

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Sample pattern

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. MacPherson, dress (purple) — ΔT 0.12
2. Lennox Purple Dress District Tartan Tartan Number: 8189. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Families with the surname 'Lennox' are usually considered related to Clans Stewart or MacFarlane. Some of this surname also choose to wear the distinctive and ancient 'Lennox' tartan. D W Stewart reproduced the sett from a 'lost' portrait of the Countess of Lennox dating from the 16th century./Threadcount and colours aren't 100% original. Generated manually./ See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.59
3. Meridia Dance — ΔT 1.00
4. Merida Dance — ΔT 1.09
5. Cunningham Dress Purple (Dance) — ΔT 1.12
6. MacPherson Blue/White Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1868. Earliest known date: 1980 There are a great number of variations of the Dress MacPherson, many of them modern trade designs which are popular with country dancers. Hugh Macpherson of Edinburgh, kiltmaker and tartan designer some decades ago, supplied samples of these to the Scottish Tartan Society around 1980. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.16
7. MacRae - 2000 (Dress, Purple) — ΔT 1.31
8. MacPherson, Blue & White — ΔT 1.32
9. MacPherson Dress Blue (Dance) — ΔT 1.34
10. Clemens and August (Personal) — ΔT 1.34

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 15726 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.

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